Now that I think of it, most of the compact Pro influx won't be unlockable without bribery, luck or significant leaks. It's why "the best compact phone" to me is still OP13T, even with its OIS-less telephoto.

I overlaid the two Xiaomi 17 Pro renders visible in Xiaomi teasers and it seems clear as a day that only the bigger one is getting a massive periscopic telephoto despite all of the space on both devices. What you can see on the smaller model is at best a 1/2" format.

On Pixel 9 Pro, a 4:3 most-likely-DCG has the ID 14. It's 12-bit and offers a lower amount of noise than default mode. This may suggest some greater intentionality behind exposing it later on P10P.

From my awareness, it looks exactly like DCG, so yes, Google very likely could expose it a generation earlier if it overlapped with their interests

Previously we made a post about a cancer patient being a victim of a malicious Steam game. It is a cryptodrainer masquerading as a free-to-play video game.

Based on reports and conversations occurring online, this is the malicious video game:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3872350/BlockBlasters/

Chat, I'm not video game developer, but this file looks strange. Why does this video game contain a .bat file that looks for your browser credentials and crypto wallets?

Keep in mind that Google wants all apps to have the internet permission without asking you for it.

By "wants", I mean it's already a thing on all global stock ROMs that I've seen, there's no internet toggle and especially you're not asked for it when running the app or warned that a given app update features the internet permission. It pokes a massive hole in the whole concept of sandboxing.

It shouldn't be allowed to look this good with their bootloader unlock policy.

Sign-in with passkey being a smaller button than sign-in-with-our-competitor? What are they doing?

It doesn't look like Samsung changed their mind or figured things out on the actual stable (S25U) build of OneUI 8 as per a user. Flashing it force-locked it in practice, but a rollback is thankfully possible. To do something like this, without an explanation at least to commercial partners, is rather unexpected.

This is an official app from Tor project. Seems like a good example on how Google seems to do a "poor" job at explaining the developer console toggle behind the sideloading restriction. This also means that Google owns the signing key of this app and can technically distribute a backdoored version of it. The person managing the developer account most likely knows how it works and it's immensely sad that they can't inform users to avoid the Google Play distribution.

ProRes RAW video is for the absolute enthusiasts who'll sacrifice their storage and convenience for the sake of highest possible material quality with invisible and efficient compression, right? RIGHT?!

(It's pretty bad)

https://youtu.be/BlBN7vOwEnw

If you're in EU, this may be a good time to ask for refund of your device (with proper documentation and argumentation), if Samsung won't change their mind. The toggle is gone also on S24U.

A Polish electronics shop opened in a browser tells you that for "the full functionality" of the site you have to update your Android to at least 12. Sneaky marketing xD

I've done the maths on the render, generously assuming that the phone has a 160mm height.
The thicknesses are:
With lens covers - 10.8mm
With island - 9.4mm
Middle body - 6.1mm

Thank you AP for your insightful information for tech-aware readers, very professional to omit something that shouldn't have happened

These people won't even mention it when it'll get an update that can't be rolled back, cursing a given unit to permanent locked state. See how many new midrange devices are physically worse than S23 Ultra and then try justifying its death on stock once it hits EOL. In few years, if Samsung won't change their mind, units without tripped antirollback will fetch higher value on second hand market, Samsung will basically steal money from unaware users (who don't even intend to unlock) if that happens.